Sell Your Used Darts Board — 0% Fees

A used darts board typically sells for £10 to £60, and on WishThrift it costs you nothing to list — no fee, no commission, so you keep the whole amount you agree. Dartboards wear out from the centre outward, so the honest photograph is the face at an angle showing the bristle around the treble twenty — that is where a board dies.

The short version

Typical range: £10 – £60 — see the full darts board value guide
What decides your price: condition, and how well you evidence it in photographs
Cost to sell here: nothing, at any price
Category: Sports & Outdoors

Before you photograph it

Ten minutes here is worth more than anything else you will do. Buyers are deciding between your listing and someone else’s, and preparation is what visibly separates the two.

Look at the board face at an angle, particularly around treble twenty, for compressed and broken bristle.
Check the wire spider for bends and whether the numbers ring rotates freely if it has one.
Check the board is genuine bristle rather than paper or coiled, since the difference is substantial.

The photographs that sell a darts board

Four photographs do almost all the work. Shoot in daylight, near a window, with the item against something plain — and do not use the flash, which flattens texture and hides exactly what buyers are trying to see.

The board face on, whole, in even light
The face at a raking angle, showing bristle condition
The treble twenty area close up
The back, mounting fixings, plus any surround or cabinet included

Photograph the flaws too. It feels counterproductive, but a listing that shows the worst of an item gets fewer questions, fewer withdrawn offers and fewer arguments at handover. Buyers who can see the damage stop imagining something worse.

Writing the title and description

Type, brand and what is included: “Winmau Blade 5 Bristle Dartboard with Surround”. Bristle is the quality signal and named boards sell far better. Say if a surround, cabinet, oche mat or darts are included, which add real value.

Then state these in the description, because a buyer who has to ask is a buyer who might not bother:

Board type — bristle, paper or electronic
Brand and model
What is included — surround, cabinet, mounting kit, darts
Face condition, especially around the treble twenty

What buyers will actually ask

You will receive the same three messages about a darts board. Answering them in the listing itself removes the back-and-forth, and answering them well when they do arrive is what turns an enquiry into a sale.

“How worn is the board?”

Photograph it at an angle. Compressed bristle around treble twenty is where every board fails and it is invisible face on.

“Is it bristle or paper?”

Say which. Bristle boards self-heal and last for years; paper and coiled boards do not and are worth a fraction.

“Does it come with a surround?”

Confirm. Surrounds protect the wall and cost a meaningful amount separately, so it is worth listing.

Pricing it so it actually sells

Start from the honest condition grade rather than the price you hope for. WishThrift listings use five grades — New with Tags, Like New, Good, Fair and For Parts — and what each grade means is worth reading before you choose, because grading up is the most expensive mistake sellers make. It does not raise the price; it produces a buyer who arrives expecting something else.

The darts board value guide prices all five grades for this item. Pick your grade, take the figure, and if you sit between two grades price toward the lower one. Items priced honestly sell faster than items priced hopefully, and on a free platform there is no fee eating the difference anyway.

What you keep, compared

On a £35 sale — roughly the middle of the range for a darts board — here is what the commission-charging platforms would take, and what you would keep on each:

Where you sell it	Fee	You keep
WishThrift	£0	£35
Poshmark	−£7	£28
eBay	−£5	£30
Mercari	−£4	£31
Etsy	−£2	£33

Seller-side rates verified 26 Jul 2026 — Poshmark: 20% commission on sales of $15 and above; eBay: 13.6% final value fee, plus a per-order fee; Mercari: flat 10% selling fee; Etsy: 6.5% transaction fee, plus a listing fee and payment processing. Percentages are applied to the sterling figure above; the fixed per-order and processing charges those platforms add are quoted in their own currency and are not included here, so the real deductions are slightly larger. Full breakdown: marketplace selling fees compared.

Timing and getting it to the buyer

Lifts before Christmas as a gift and in autumn as league season starts. Quality bristle boards sell within a fortnight.

Heavy for its size, so weigh before quoting. Post it face protected with card, since the wire spider bends easily and a bent spider deflects darts permanently.

WishThrift does not process payments or arrange delivery — you and the buyer agree both directly — so confirm payment has cleared before the item leaves your hands, and keep the conversation on the site so there is a record of what was agreed.

Ready to list it? It takes about two minutes, costs nothing, and there is no commission when it sells — create a free account or see how selling works.

Frequently asked questions

What is a used dartboard worth?

Typically £10 to £60, with quality bristle boards and included surrounds above. See the dartboard value guide for the bands.

How can I tell if a board is worn out?

Look at the bristle around treble twenty at a raking angle. When the fibres are compressed and no longer close up around the dart, the board is finished regardless of how it looks face on.

Do bristle boards really self-heal?

The sisal fibres close up around the hole when the dart is removed, which is why they last far longer than paper boards. That is worth saying if yours is genuine bristle.